800 workers resign after company asks them to work from workplace

As the Covid scenario has improved, a number of companies have already called their staff to office, ending the earn a living from home (WFH).

Nevertheless, it seems some staff wish to do business from home further. Not too long ago, lots of of staff have resigned when an organization requested them to come back to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr workers have resigned from the kids online coding learning edtech start-up in the last two months after being asked to work from office.

This comes after WhiteHat Jr, a platform which was acquired by BYJU’S in 2020, requested its employees to return to workplace within a month’s time, according to an Inc42 report.

On March 18, the corporate announced the coverage to end work from home and requested distant workers to return to workplace by April 18.

The resignations came from full-time employees of the gross sales, coding, and math teams. More workers are expected to put down their papers within the coming months.

One of the staff who resigned informed the website that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have youngsters, some have aged and sick parents, whereas others produce other responsibilities. It isn't right to call back staff in such a brief time period,” the previous WhiteHat Jr worker mentioned.

Another employee stated salaries also factored within the determination to not return to the office. On the time of hiring, employees have been instructed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has places of work in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from residence for 2 years, workers believed that their salaries should be revised to mirror the cost of residing in expensive cities.

“This was a well-planned and managed layoff that WhiteHat Jr did,” a former employee remarked.